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APPLICATION FIL'ED MT. 26, 1916.

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LEWIS E. \IVATERMAN, OF ROCKFORD, ILL INOIS. ASS'IGNOR TO EMERSON-BRANTING HAM COMPANY, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, A. CGRP'QR-ATZQN OF ILLINGIS.

POWER-LIFT PLQW'.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed October 26,1916. Serial No. 127,912.

To all ZL'ZLOHL it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS E. lVA'rEmmx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford. in the county of ll innehago and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Power-Lift Plows, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to the general art of plows, and has more particular reference to power lift plows in which a gang of disk or moldboard plows mounted on a frame in a. line diagonal to the line of draft are raised and lowered as a unit by raising and lower ing the frame. The power lift device per se employed in the invention is of thesanie general type as described in. my copending application, Serial No. 67202, filed Dec. 16, 1915, and may be considered. merely as one element in combination with other features relative to the connections between the power lift device and the plow-carrying frame whereby the latter is raised and lowered.

The 1 rimary object of the present invention is to provide simple and practical power-operated mechanism for raising and lowering a plow-carrying frame equippee with a gang of plows arranged in a line diagonal to the line of draft.

Another object is to provide an improved power lift mechanism. for plows in which a furrow wheel and a land wheel are vertically movable in unison with respectto a plow-carrying frame by operation of the po "er mechanism so as to raise and lower the plows, end to provide an adjusting lever for vertically adjusting each of said wheels independently of" the operation of said power mechanism, the levers being;- so arranged as not to be disturbed by the operation of said mechanism.

Other objects are to provide in a power lift plow in which a land wheel and a furrow wheel are Vertically moved in unison with respect to the frame by a powei operated mechanism, a novel connection between t- 1e said wheels whereby they are moved, and adjusting levers for vertically adjustingeaeh wheel independently of the powcroperated mechanism, one of the adjusting levers being connected with said mechanism through a compound leverage, whereby to fac1l1tate the adjustment.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan View of a disk gang the front furrow wheel 13 and the plow embodying my improvements, the disk gang; tonstructn'in being shown somewhat c in grain inatically Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly'brolren away, illustrating; the connection between the front furrow wheel and land wheel Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a portion of the front end of the plow; and

l a is a rear elevation of a portion of the rear end of the plow. A

A plow frame with which my improvements are particularly adaptable, consists ireferahly of a rigid structure eXtending diagonally with respect to the line of draft so as to support a series of plows in substantially the same diagonal plane. The frame wheel supported and certain of the wheels may he vertically moved with respect to the frame by a power-operated mechanism to raise and lower said frame and correspondingly raise and lower the plows as a unit. in the present instance, l have chosen to 'llusti'ate a rigid frame structure particle :rly adapted for raising a series of disk ilows. The frame consists mainly of a aped bar 5 extending diagonally to the line draft. and a transyerse bar (5 secured to the front end or". said bar 5 and turned r warrlly to provide a brace '7 in turn also cured to said bar To the front end of the her 5 may also be secured a bearing bracket 8 in which the spindle of a front furrow wheel described later on, may be mounted. A. jliranie bar 9 secured. to the rear end of the bar 5 and exderiding fnrrmwwardly there:- from is equipped at its outer extremity with a bracket in which is mounted the spindle of a rear furrmv wheel 11. Suitable means not shown) may be provided for vertically adjusting the rear furrow wheel with. respect to the frame, as is well understood in the art, but for illustrating my present invention the furrow wheel as shown is sufficient. series of disk plows '12 may be mounted in spaced relation by means of any sconnection on the frame bar 5 so as be held in substaiiitialiy rig d. relation thereto and to be moved as a un therewith when the same is raised and lowereil.

Of the means for suiu jorting the frame, rear land wheel ll are adapted to bemoved vertically with respect to the frame to raise and lower the same. it. power-operated device driven from the land wheel is employed to vertithroughthe agency of said power-operated device and connection therefrom to said wheels, the frame will be raised and lowe ed from opposite extremities of the frame substantially in said diagonal line and swung on a rear fulcrum in the form of the rear furrow wheel.

Coming now to the means employed for moving the front furrow wheel and the land wheel to raise and lower the plows, I. will first describe in a general way the construction and operation of the power-operated device. in this connection, however. it should be noted that the power-operated device is of substantially the same construc tion as that shown in my application mentioned above hence a general description of this device will sutlice for an understanding of the present invention. Theland wheel .ll is loosely mounted on the free end iii of a crank 16 journaled in brackets 17 and 18 respectively securedto the frame elements 5min f) and held against longitudinal move.- nient in its bearings by collars 19. A bracket designated generally by :21 assm ciated with the arm of the crank substantially tl'iroughout the length thereof and fixedly secured thereto by 'U-boltsl23 has a forward extension forn'iing a barring ll in which the shaft 25 of a clutch device is journaled. The clutch device consists of a driw ing member 26 loosely mounted on the shaft 25 and formed on its periphery with a sprocket wheel 27 and interiorly with a notched face 28. A member 29 keyed to the driven member or shaft carries within the inclosure of the member 26 a pair of pivoted bell crank levers 31, one of which is equipped with a roller 32 adapted to engage with the notched face 2b of the driving member 26. A link 33 joins the said bell crardrs. and a coi'itractile. spring 'Z-l connecting one of said levers to the member 28) constantly urges said bell crank members in a direction to move their arms 35 into and across the sockets or depressions M formed on diai'netrically opposite sides of the mem.- ber As shown in Fig. 2. the roller 32 is held disengaged from the face 2 by means of a roller 37 located in one of the notches 36 so as to hold the adjacent arm 55 in a. retracted position. The said roller 3T supl'iortcd on the end of a crank 3H mounted on the bracket 21 and held in the bosition shown, by means of a contractile spring 35) connecting an arm ll secured to the said crank and to a lixed part of the bracket. it will be apparent, viewing Fig. 2. that when the arm ll is rocked in a counterclockwise direction the roller 37 will be withdrawn from engagement with the arm allowing the spring 26 to move the roller 32 into engagement with the notched face :28, thereby connecting the parts 26 and 29 of the clutch so that they will rotate together. An endless chain -l2 connects the sprocket wheel 27 to a sprocket gear fixed to a sleeve 4 :3 loosely mounted on the crank end 15. When the partsare in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the plow is being drawn forwardly the clutch-engaging elements are held out of engagement by the roller 27 under the influence of the spring 39 so that the clutch member 26 may be rotated idly. By rocking the arm ll forwardly the clutch will be engaged as described above and the member 29 will be rotated a half revolution and then stopped by the entrance of the roller 37 into the nextsucceeding notch crating the lever 35 so as to withdraw the roller 32 from the notched face 38. The purpose for which the driven member or shaft 25 is revolved in half revolution movements is to correspoiulingly revolve a crank ell lixedly attached to thefurrow-11rd end of said shaft and connected through a series of levers to the frame; The crank l i may be said to be connected to a frame element so that when the crank is revolved, its free end will serve as a fulcrum about which the shaft 25 will swing and thereby cause the crank it) to be rocked to move the land wheel vertically with respect to the frame When the crank iiis revolved a half revolution in a counterclockwise direction vie-wing Fig. :2, the wheel equipped end of the crank 16 will be swung forwardly and upwardly, causing the adjacent portion. of the plow frame to be lowered and upon half revolution of the crank n the crank 16 will be swung back to upright position, thereby raising the frame. The power-operated device thus far described is substantially the same as that shown. in my copend ing application mentioned above, and the novelty of my present invention resides in the connection between the crank l-sl and the frame and between the power-operated device and the front furrow wheel for cans ing the said furrow 'wheel and the rear land wheel to be vertically moved in unison.

The connection between the frame and the crank l4 is in the form of compound levers consisting of an adjustable hand lever 4 5 pivotally mounted at 4:6 on the upper end of an npstani'ling support l? which is acontinuation. of the bracket 17, the lever #25 cooperating inthe usual manner with a notched sector l8 fixedly mounted on the support 4:7 and nected at its lower extremity by means of a link. iii to the outer end of a pair of spaced rocker arms 52 loosely mounted on the pivot end of the crank 16 on the opposite sides of 36, thereby opthe next having a depending extension ll) conthe support 4!. A link 53 connects the free end of thecrank let to the free end of said arms 52, as is clearly shown in Fig. It will be manifest from the foregoing that in adjusting the lever 4:5 a compound leverage obtained to move the link d3 verticallyand. consequently change the vertical position of the free end of the crank l-l about which said crank revolves, so that the vertical range, of movement of he land wheel 1% with respect to the plow frame will be varied. In other words, the depth to which the plows are lowered is controlled by adjusinent of the lever It will be here noted that during operation of the power mechanism just described to raise and lower the rear portion of the frame, the lever 45 remains stationary,

relative movementbetween the ground. wheel crank and its connection with the frame being taken care of by the crank i l and link 53; ltwill. he further noted that by reason of this arrangement the lever extends rearwardly from the frame in a position to be very conveniently adjusted by an operator.

The manner in which the front furrow wheel is connected with the frame and with the power-operated mechanism to be moved vertically thereby with respect to the frame will now be described. The front furrow wheel ournaled on an oblique axis on the lower end of an upright spindle 5a in turn rotatable and longitudinally slidably mount ed in the bearing 55 formed integrally with the bracket 8, is guided in a position to bear against the corner of a furrow in a manner and for the purpose well understood in the art and may be moved vertically with respect to the frame by longitudinal sliding movement of the spindle 54: in the bearing Abraoket 56 mounted on the upper end of the spindle carries a notched segment 57 with which a hand lever 58 pivctally mount ed at 59 on the bracket 56 is cooperatively connected by means of the usual spring latch, this lever being connected with the frame and the power lift device so as to cause the spindle to be moveo vertically in its hearing 55 without disturbing the adjustment of the lever upon operation of said power lift device and so as to enable the lever to be adjusted to vary the depth to which the furrow wheel will be ldwered with respect to the frame. For this purpose the lever 58 is provided at its pivoted end with an integral forward extension 61 pivotaliy connected through the agency of a link 62 to the free endof an arm 63 pivotally mounted on the frame in substantially parallel relation to the extension. 61'. The arm 63 formed in the present instance as the forwardly turned end of a rock shaft G l mounted in a bearing 65 integral with the bearing and a bracket 66 secured to the frame bar 7. To the land ward end of the rock shaft 65 is fixedly secured an arm 67 pivotally connectedin any suitable manner at its outer end to the forward end of a connecting rod 68 in turn pivota'lly' connected at its rear end to an upstanding arm 69 rigidly secured to the pivot portion of the crank 16. A contractile spring described, the arm 69 will rock the shaft 64:

through the agency of the connecting rod (58, thereby swinging the arm 63 and, through means of the link 62 and arm 61, causing the spindle 5a and its furrow wheel to be raised and lowered with respect to the frame. These connections between the crank 16 and spindle 5a are arranged so that the front furrow wheel and the land wheel will be raised and lowered with respect to the frame in unison and the frame at its fore and rear extremities will be raised and lowered upon the rear furrow wheel 11 as a fulcrum. Suitable draft means (not shown) may be attached to the draft arm 72 rigidly secured to the lower end of the spindle 54; and to the landward end of the frame bar 6, or in any other suitable manner.

A gang plow such as described above is I generally drawn by a traction engine from which an operator controls the raising and lowering of the plows through the agency of a suitable cable or rope 3 connected to the lever ell. It will be readily apparent that as the plow is drawn forwardly, the plows may be lowered into the ground by the action of pulling forwardly on the cable 73, thereby engaging the clutch of the power-operated device so that power from the land wheel is utilized to lower the plows into the ground in the manner described above. It will be here noted that during such lowering movement of the plows, the levers 45 and 48 are notdisturbed or swung back and forth so as to interfere with or be a source of danger to any one near by. By a forward pulling movement on the cable 3 the clutch of the power lift device will be again. engaged to revolve a half revolution and lift the plows as described above.

I claim:

1. In a plow, the combination of a plowcarrying frame, supporting wheels therefor, a rockable crank axle mounted on the frame carrying one of said wheels, power-operated uneans adapted to be driven from the wheel on said crank axle for raising the frame including a revoluble member and a connection between said power-operated means and the frame through which the raising and lowering movement is transmitted, comprising a linkconnected eccentrically to said revoluble member, an ad usting lever moun ed on the frame, a link pivotally connecting the adjusting lever and the first mentioned link, and means for maintaining the pivotal connection between said links substantially stationary when the power means is operated to. raise the plow frame and permitting said pivot to be adjusted by the lever when it is desired to vary tl1e.wo1-l ing depth through adjustment of said lever.

2. In a plow, thecomhinntion of a Wheelsup ioited plow eai'i'ying frame, a roekable crank axle mounted on the frame and on which mounted one of the carrying; Wheels, means adapted to be operated from said enri'ying wheel for rocking said crank axle to raise the plow-cnri=ying frame including a revolulole member and a connection between Lennon-e said revolnhle member and the mine through means of which raising movement is imparted to the frame when the crank axle is rocked, eoin n'ising a link connected at one end. eecentiienlly to said revolnhle member, and means aivotnlly conneeting the other end of said link with the frame and for holding the latter pivot in fixed relation with the frame so that by revolving said member through power from the carrying wheel the plow-carrying frame will be named means including an adjusting lever connected thsongh means of a link to the first mentioned link ing the position of the pivot axis thereof so as to vary the Working depth of the plows. LEW/1S E. "WATERIVIAN.

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